"What happened if you achieve heights, but you don't have sweetness and love like Khajur tree (date), which do not yield any value either by giving shelter from sunrays and also its fruits are also far away, "

Bura jo dekhan main chala.bura na miliya koy.

jo dil khoja aapna.mujse bura na koy.

"I searched for the crooked man, met not a single oneThen searched myself, "I" found the crooked one"

Kaal kare so aaj kar, Aaj kare so aab.

Pal mein pralay hoyegi, bahuri karoge kab.

"Tomorrow's work do today, today's work nowif the moment is lost, the work be done how"

"Your good days are passed away when you had energy and time to do loveand devotion to GOD. You didn’t do it at that time, what is the use of regretting now?(Famous saying – what will you do when you didn’t keep guarding your farm and birdshave eaten all your grains). All your enemies-(five enemies – lust, greed, anger, ego andattachment) have eaten all your potentials."

Mangan maran saman hai, math mango koi bheek.

Mangan sai marna bhala, ye sathguru kee seek.

"Begging is like perishing, none should go imploringIt is better to die than beg, this is pure Guru's teaching"

Kashi kaaba ek hai; ek hai ram rahim

maida ek pakwan bahut, bait kabir jeem.

"There is no difference between Kashi and Mecca, Ram and Rahim. It is like different kinds of meals prepared from the same wheat. Once we realize God, the sense of discrimination between man and man, high and low disappears."

Tinka kabahu na nindiye, paav tale jo hoye

Kabahu udd aankho pade, peed gehri hoye

"One should not abuse a blade of grass under one's feet. If that happens to strike on one's eye then there will be terrific pain."

"Kabira in the market place, wishes welfare of allNeither friendship nor enmity with anyone at all"

Shram se hi sab kuch hot hai, bin shram mile kuch nahi

Seedhe ungli ghee jamo, kabsu nikase nahi

"Efforts can accomplish everything. Nothing can be accomplished without taking efforts. A purified butter that is frozen cannot be taken out with a straight finger."

Mana unmana na toliye, shabd ke mol na tol

Murakh log na jansi, aapa khoya bol

"When your mind is raged then you should not react to the words. One does not have any means for the valuation and weight of words. The fools do not understand this and lose their balance while talking."

Pehle shabd pehchaniye, pichhe kije mol

Parkhi parkhe rattan ko, shabd ka mol na tol

"First you should understand what has been said by others. Then you can make the valuation of the words that you have listened. A goldsmith can test the purity of gold. One does not have any means for the valuation and weight of words"

Naari purush sab hi suno, yeh satguru ki saakh

Vish phal phale anek hai, mat dekho koi chaakh

"Listen everybody to the preaching of a good preacher. There are many ways of sensual enjoyment. But one should abstain from any such way."

"How will you know who is a GOD-realized soul, who has tasted the great wine, the nectar of GOD?? Kabir says you can see the symptoms – the person who has attained the community with GOD, looks like intoxicated all the time. This intoxication never comes down, he looks like insane, wanders like the same, doesn’t even bother about his body or appearance."

"He opens the veil within your being and shows himself in front of you!! HE only is our true friend. At the time of our birth (here it refers spiritual birth or the moment when this creation came in existence and we as separate being came into picture) he was the only friend and when the journey of the soul has come to an end, I see him only as true friend. he has been our friend throughout our all lives, only it took whole journey from the origin to coming down this material world and going back to our source to make us realize this truth!!"

Had mein chale so maanava, behad chale so saadh

Had behad dono taje, taako bata agaadh.

"The one who is confined in limitations is human, the one who roams into unlimited, is a Sadhu. The one who has dropped both limited and unlimited, unfathomable is his being and understanding."

" Kabir finds the grinding stones as the two parts of life that we live in. Heaven and earth, Good and evil, Male and Female, High and Low - all around is duality. Life do not leave anyone. Whoever enters this duality is crushed. No one survives. Kabir cries because rarely, if ever, does one see the oneness, the divinity, behind the duality. "